Monday, April 11, 2011

I found Jesus on 17th Street

I spent the early part of my day looking for work by my new apartment.  While strolling down 17th street I saw a man wearing a Statue of Liberty Costume and waving a sign for "Liberty Taxes".  The man was looking very enthused for such a daunting task of waving a large sign in the air all day, he must be getting paid decent money for the labor.  I asked him "So, how much are they paying you to stand out here and wave that sign around all day?"  The man then looked at me strangely as if no one had ever taken the time to say hello, or ask him any questions.  He then replied with an answer that almost made my head spin, but renewed my faith that there are decent people in this world still "I work for free.  You see, I live at my local church and we're very poor and cannot pay our electricity bill.  The church has allowed me to stay for free, and I turn I work to help pay the bills".  I was astonished by his answer, and before I said good day to him I had to ask, "My name is Taylor, what is your name?" and he replied "My name you ask? My name is Jesus". Coincidence? Most likely, but still pretty cool.

18 comments:

  1. did he pronounce it like hey-zeus? hah, that is funny

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  2. I had almost the same experience. There was a guy waving signs for a mall, I asked how much he got paid. it wasn't for free and he wasn't Jesus, but almost similar story. haha

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  3. Jesus is the Statue of Liberty! It all makes sense! No...wait...no it doesn't.

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  4. Great work! I love the blog style!

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  5. Great work! I love the blog style!

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  6. We will never know if it was a coincidence or if it was Jesus himself :D

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  7. wow, that is an amazing story! did you snap s picture of Jesus?

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  8. well he does have reason to be happy

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  9. hehehe i really like Xuians post, his name was probably hey-zeus.

    That's still really cool that the church would let him live there.

    Great post! Keep up the grand work.

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  10. This is pretty awesome. Was it the spanish pronunciation of Jesus?

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  11. Yeah, was his name Jesus, as in the name of Chelsea Handler's assistant Chuy; or was it Jesus, as in that guy from the bible I've heard of a few times?

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  12. Haha i've seen these dudes around, always thought they were homeless too.

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